“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”
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“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
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“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
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“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”
― Dear Theo
― Dear Theo
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